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Iron County News
Hurley, Iron County, Wisconsin
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In early America's Puritan era, Christmas was denounced as an evil custom and not observed, with children receiving no gifts or festivities, as reported by Geraldine Ames in the Churchman.
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Christmas Was Utterly Denounced as Evil and Ungodly In Early Days.
In the early days of America's history Christmas festivities were not generally observed.
In one state the observation of Christmas was utterly denounced as an evil, ungodly and pernicious custom, and any child daring to think of as much as a plum pudding on that day would make himself liable to reproof by the authorities.
All along the stern and rock-bound coast, Geraldine Ames writes in the Churchman, the only Christmas trees in the days of the Puritan domination were those that nature had planted there and had adorned with dewy snow.
The fires burned brightly on the open hearths, but as far as the children knew Christmas was just like any other day in the calendar.
Even after the Puritan reaction against the forms and customs of the old church had spent itself to some extent the children of the Seventeenth century still expected no gifts in honor of the birth of Christ.
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Early Days Of America's History, Seventeenth Century
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Christmas festivities were not generally observed in early America; in one state, it was denounced as evil, ungodly, and pernicious, with children liable to reproof for expecting treats. Under Puritan domination along the stern and rock-bound coast, natural trees were the only Christmas adornments, and the day was like any other, with no gifts even after the reaction against old church customs lessened.